Good practice title

Implementation of eLearning

Baseline problem

To keep up with the ongoing digitalization, we implemented an eLearning platform to support our face-to-face trainings. The need for a platform was to have systematic, centralized way of providing delegates with information, files and pre-course work.

The platform was piloted with one course first before being deployed to all courses that could benefit from it. We do not have any fully digital eLearning courses yet, but this is expected to change.

Good practice title

Classroom specific practical issues checklist

Baseline problem

There are plenty of things to remember when starting a training in our classroom that the delegates need to be informed of. Fire exits, emergency procedures, toilets, parking, eLearning environment etc.

A large part of our trainer base is not on our payroll (they are entrepreneurs and we buy their services) and even if they were, it cannot be expected that everyone can remember such as long list of things that need to

Good practice title

Baseline problem

Our organization uses a lot of external trainers. Of our approximately 30 trainers, only 5 are on the payroll. The rest are external trainers who work for us as entrepreneurs – we buy their services.

With this wide variety of trainers from many different backgrounds we noticed there was quite a lot of variation in multiple things, such as: training materials, training style, dressing style and others. The external trainers didn’t really know each other

Good practice title

Quick-check delegate expectations for 1-3 day courses

Baseline problem

We do satisfaction surveys for all of our courses and trainings. Our results are mostly very good but we noticed that sometimes there was an unsatisfied delegate who chose to remain silent during the 1-3 day course and instead informed us of their opinion only after the fact. Of course, at this point there was not much we could do to change this. Most of the time the dissatisfaction seemed

]]>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:48:12 GMThttp://bequal.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=325%3Aquick-check-delegate-expectations-for-1-3-day-courses-in-further-education-and-training&catid=79%3Agood-practice-all&Itemid=168&lang=itProducts cards for courses and curriculum development in further education and traininghttp://bequal.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=324%3Aproducts-cards-for-courses-and-curriculum-development-in-further-education-and-training&catid=79%3Agood-practice-all&Itemid=168&lang=it
Profile of VET organisation

Good practice title

Products cards

Baseline problem

Our courses and curriculum were not being developed systematically. Although we did have new courses at times it was sporadic and there was not much product development going on. In addition, information about the new courses was unclear and sometimes key people got the information too late.

Good practice: (Measures, instruments, criteria, indicators)

We implemented a two-step product development process centred around a new tool: product cards. A product card is a basic fact sheet that lists

Good practice title

Quality management in a school

Baseline problem

Our organization is school with staff of 50 teachers and 10 technical workers. 2 years ago we decide, that we need built a system for monitoring quality in our organization. Our choice was EFQM Excellence model. As a first step we organized our self-assessment and gained many suggestions for improvement. In a 2-3 month will be ready our organization development plan, what we are building using

Latvian Society for Quality hosted a conference “Quality management and leadership in educational institution” on August 25th, 2016 in Riga aiming to promote an exchange of experience and co-operation among VET institutions.

Good practice title

Baseline problem

The vision of Riga Technical University until 2020 is to become the leading University of science and innovation in the Baltic States.

In order to achieve it, the strategy is based on the three key objectives of the University (high quality study process, excellence in research and sustainable innovation and commercialization activities) while the following five main priorities of the University cut across the strategy – internationalization, interdisciplinary, organisational efficiency, financial

Good practice title

Excellence approach in a non-profit organization

Baseline problem

Our organization works mainly on voluntary basis and it is not easy to manage all our activities, to communicate properly and to develop the organization. To structure our system better, to improve organization and to focus on long term needs, we decided to use excellence approach and to build an excellence culture. As a base for excellence approach it is suggested to do a regular comprehensive

Good practice title

Excellence approach in a College

Baseline problem

In two years we have to go through an accreditation process and our plan is to reach the status, when all our processes are in order, clean and transparent. To structure our system better, to improve College routine processes and to focus on long term needs, we decided to use excellence approach and to build an excellence culture.

Good practice title

“RaDoSt“ School Counselling Centre

Baseline problem

From the perspective of a school it is established good practice. The "RaDoSt" School Counselling Centre has been in existence for ten years. It deals mainly with educational counselling, methods of preventing negative social phenomena and career counselling. Employees of the counselling centre help both pupils and parents in solving educational and training problems, in dealing

Good practice title

E-SHOP WITH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

Baseline problem

Customers of our training activities have the opportunity to become acquainted with our training offerings through e-shop. The e-shop includes training products, including their description, graduate profile, lesson scale, maximum number of participants in educational activity, prices and options to easily log in the activity. Thus conceived e-shop is suitable for both the interested parties from the public side as well as for HR within companies.

The reason for the introduction of the e-shop with educational programs

Good practice title

School effective management tools

Baseline problem

One of most significant problems of the school is to safeguard efficient communication among teachers, non-educational staff and school management team members. It is due to the teacher´s work system as teachers mostly meet only a narrow group of colleagues and pupils. The time schedule does not allow for all teachers to meet quite often as they have some

Good practice title

Verification of training course quality

Baseline problem

After the foundation of our educational company, we did not care at all for any feedback from our trainees. This is why we did not know whether the trainees who had completed the course were satisfied with the content, methods and form of the training. It used to happen that some trainees´ evaluation of the courses was negative. We found about this fact incidentally and informally. After I got this information, I

Good practice title

Welcome to us

Baseline problem

Among other, our school offers to candidates for study the branch of study 65-42-M/02 Tourism (daily educational programmes for four years).

Graduates who completed the programme Tourism are ready to do jobs in the field of tourism as employees of travel offices or agencies, tourist information centre clerks, tourist guides, travel agency delegates and a number of other jobs in hotel, transport, spa and congress services.

]]>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:41:37 GMThttp://bequal.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=316%3Awelcome-to-us&catid=79%3Agood-practice-all&Itemid=168&lang=itBequal.info initiative in VET school SOŠE, COP, Hluboká nad Vltavou on 24th of Junehttp://bequal.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=310%3A2016-06-24-12-52-25&catid=63%3Agreece-blog&Itemid=155&lang=it
On June 24, staff from VET school SOŠE, COP, Hluboká nad Vltavou, South Bohemia Region will be introduced with EU initiatives in regard to quality in VET.

Participants sill be introduced to the Benchmarking tool developed within the project BEQUAL.net and will have a chance to evaluate the tool.

]]>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:51:39 GMThttp://bequal.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=310%3A2016-06-24-12-52-25&catid=63%3Agreece-blog&Itemid=155&lang=itBequal.info initiative in VET school Střední škola obchodní on 21st of Junehttp://bequal.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=309%3A2016-06-21-06-42-05&catid=63%3Agreece-blog&Itemid=155&lang=it
On June 21, staff from VET school Střední škola obchodní, České Budějovice, Husova 9, South Bohemia Region will be introduced with EU initiatives in regard to quality in VET. Participants sill be introduced to the Benchmarking tool developed within the project BEQUAL.net and will have a chance to evaluate the tool.

If you represent VET organization, we kindly ask you to try and test the tool by registering on www.bequal.info page not only to benefit from the usage of the tool, but also to help us recognize possible errors or imperfections in the content and functionality of the